List of chess grandmasters

Player names are generally listed as they appear in FIDE records such as the FIDE Chess Profile pages, although accents are used where appropriate even though FIDE databases use only the English alphabet. When player names or spellings have changed, generally the most recent name is used even if it is different than the name in use when the title was awarded. When name changes occur, the previous name is listed in the Notes column, although small changes in transliteration such as "Alexei" vs. "Alexey" are not mentioned. A few players have common names that are much better known than the name in FIDE records, and in those cases the more generally recognizable name may be listed in parenthesis. For example, "Fischer, Robert James (Bobby)".

FIDE has issued ID codes since 1998; some older grandmasters were never assigned an ID. For living grandmasters, FIDE ID is a link to the FIDE Chess Profile page. The FIDE Chess Profile page can usually be used to verify the year the GM title was awarded and the player's birth year. FIDE IDs for deceased grandmasters are retained in this table to aid matching with older FIDE records such as the FIDE rating lists.

Title Year is the year FIDE officially awarded the title. Sometimes this may be a year after the player completed the final norm requirements for the title.

Federation lists the player federation at the time the GM title was awarded. If the player subsequently changed federations, they are listed in Notes. Federations before the GM title was awarded are not included in the list, except in some cases of honorary GM awards when the honorary award was made on the basis of the player's accomplishments years earlier when they were in a different federation.

The Notes column includes all sources that were used to compile the information for each player.